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-rw-r--r--man1/intro.12
-rw-r--r--man2/gettimeofday.22
-rw-r--r--man2/mkdir.22
-rw-r--r--man2/nice.22
-rw-r--r--man2/setresuid.22
-rw-r--r--man2/stime.22
-rw-r--r--man3/adjtime.32
-rw-r--r--man3/getttyent.32
-rw-r--r--man5/proc.56
9 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man1/intro.1 b/man1/intro.1
index 72d905240f..20d36d73a7 100644
--- a/man1/intro.1
+++ b/man1/intro.1
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Linux is a flavor of UNIX, and as a first approximation
all user commands under UNIX work precisely the same under
Linux (and FreeBSD and lots of other UNIX-like systems).
.LP
-Under Linux there are GUIs (graphical user interfaces), where you
+Under Linux, there are GUIs (graphical user interfaces), where you
can point and click and drag, and hopefully get work done without
first reading lots of documentation.
The traditional UNIX environment
diff --git a/man2/gettimeofday.2 b/man2/gettimeofday.2
index bedd0343e9..652a88b5a6 100644
--- a/man2/gettimeofday.2
+++ b/man2/gettimeofday.2
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ structure is obsolete; the
argument should normally be specified as NULL.
(See NOTES below.)
-Under Linux there are some peculiar "warp clock" semantics associated
+Under Linux, there are some peculiar "warp clock" semantics associated
with the
.BR settimeofday ()
system call if on the very first call (after booting)
diff --git a/man2/mkdir.2 b/man2/mkdir.2
index 670bf06543..71f794fd8b 100644
--- a/man2/mkdir.2
+++ b/man2/mkdir.2
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ SVr4, BSD, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
.BR mkdirat ():
POSIX.1-2008.
.SH NOTES
-Under Linux apart from the permission bits, only the
+Under Linux, apart from the permission bits, only the
.B S_ISVTX
mode bit is honored.
That is, under Linux the created directory actually gets mode
diff --git a/man2/nice.2 b/man2/nice.2
index 5677faf950..7c862d89f8 100644
--- a/man2/nice.2
+++ b/man2/nice.2
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The calling process attempted to increase its priority by
supplying a negative
.I inc
but has insufficient privileges.
-Under Linux the
+Under Linux, the
.B CAP_SYS_NICE
capability is required.
(But see the discussion of the
diff --git a/man2/setresuid.2 b/man2/setresuid.2
index 0c4a89745d..90e7cc661b 100644
--- a/man2/setresuid.2
+++ b/man2/setresuid.2
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ they also appear on HP-UX and some of the BSDs.
.SH NOTES
Under HP-UX and FreeBSD, the prototype is found in
.IR <unistd.h> .
-Under Linux the prototype is provided by glibc since version 2.3.2.
+Under Linux, the prototype is provided by glibc since version 2.3.2.
The original Linux
.BR setresuid ()
diff --git a/man2/stime.2 b/man2/stime.2
index 1c0b15f3e8..201e6e6097 100644
--- a/man2/stime.2
+++ b/man2/stime.2
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Error in getting information from user space.
.TP
.B EPERM
The calling process has insufficient privilege.
-Under Linux the
+Under Linux, the
.B CAP_SYS_TIME
privilege is required.
.SH CONFORMING TO
diff --git a/man3/adjtime.3 b/man3/adjtime.3
index 1744aa7c2f..f1a3972b5b 100644
--- a/man3/adjtime.3
+++ b/man3/adjtime.3
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ is outside the permitted range.
.TP
.B EPERM
The caller does not have sufficient privilege to adjust the time.
-Under Linux the
+Under Linux, the
.B CAP_SYS_TIME
capability is required.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
diff --git a/man3/getttyent.3 b/man3/getttyent.3
index 93b8a4d20c..0271bc3be8 100644
--- a/man3/getttyent.3
+++ b/man3/getttyent.3
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ so it is not thread-safe.
Not in POSIX.1-2001.
Present on the BSDs, and perhaps other systems.
.SH NOTES
-Under Linux the file
+Under Linux, the file
.IR /etc/ttys ,
and the functions described above, are not used.
.SH SEE ALSO
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 2e4fae019f..292e1e715d 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ are not available if the main thread has already terminated
(typically by calling
.BR pthread_exit (3)).
-Under Linux 2.0 and earlier
+Under Linux 2.0 and earlier,
.I /proc/[pid]/exe
is a pointer to the binary which was executed,
and appears as a symbolic link.
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ short of running it through
.BR strace (1),
or similar.
-Under Linux 2.0 there is no field giving pathname.
+Under Linux 2.0, there is no field giving pathname.
.TP
.I /proc/[pid]/mem
This file can be used to access the pages of a process's memory through
@@ -3641,7 +3641,7 @@ with
.B MAP_NORESERVE
are not checked, and the default check is very weak,
leading to the risk of getting a process "OOM-killed".
-Under Linux 2.4 any nonzero value implies mode 1.
+Under Linux 2.4, any nonzero value implies mode 1.
In mode 2 (available since Linux 2.6), the total virtual address space
on the system is limited to (SS + RAM*(r/100)),
where SS is the size of the swap space, and RAM